Biometric system helps boost school attendance

A biometric system that was deployed using UK aid funding has helped bolster school attendance in Kenya, a news report in the local media has been able to reveal.

The Adolescent Girls Initiative- Kenya (AGI-Kenya) is conducting a biometric registration trial for 3,000 adolescent girls in 60 schools in Wajir County, Kenya. Implemented by Save the Children, the trial employs affordable, easy-to-use equipment to read students' fingerprints to record daily attendance.

The biometric information is then used to identify those students who meet the imposed threshold of 80% school attendance and, therefore, qualify for a cash transfer twice a term.

The money's sent directly to their parents, whose biometric details have also been captured and linked to a bank account to facilitate electronic household cash transfers. The biometric system generates reliable data at a much lower cost than other conditional cash transfer initiatives.

"Though it is a little time consuming to register one beneficiary, it will be fairly easy to use the information later to mark school attendance as they will just be checking in and out and not going through the whole detailed process," says Muktar, one of the research assistants engaged in registering the beneficiaries.

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